Although nominally Chinese workers were workers, they arrived in Europe in the form of an army, and within the Entente countries, Chinese workers were called "Chinese labor brigades", which were originally used for military management.

The Chinese workers who came to Cyprus are all from the Zhili region in the north of the Republic of China, and they are all between 18 and 25 years old, and their physical health is the basic requirement.

The height of these Chinese workers is generally more than 1.70 meters, which can be regarded as tall in Europe at present, but their bodies are still relatively thin, and their arm circumference is generally more than two centimeters less than that of Chinese in southern Africa.

The person in charge of the management of these Chinese workers is an Englishman named Spike, who is an employee of the Nyasaland Human Resources Company, which is responsible for organizing the Chinese workers to work in Europe.

"You are really lucky to be assigned to Cyprus, Lord Nyasaland himself is Chinese, and you have seen that there are many Chinese faces in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, who have actually emigrated to southern Africa for a few years, but they don't seem to be much different from the white people in Europe-" Spike's high opinion of the Chinese is actually not enough, but as a white man, Spike will not admit that the Chinese are better than the white people.

The Chinese in southern Africa, especially the second-generation Chinese who grew up in southern Africa, are more popular than whites.

Although whites are reluctant to admit it, but under the same educational conditions, Chinese students often have better academic performance than whites, many Chinese who have just arrived in southern Africa are extremely poor and live in extreme poverty, but once they stabilize, they will adapt to the environment of southern Africa at an alarming speed, Chinese-run farms are generally better than white-run farms, and after life gradually stabilizes, many Chinese farmers have to arrange a study at home and buy all kinds of books as much as possible, regardless of whether they know how to read or not.

Although this is suspected of being subordinate, it itself expresses the yearning for culture and the worship of knowledge, and the favorite pastime of white farmers is hunting, and the favorite pastime of Chinese farmers is playing chess, which in itself are two different ways of life.

For a short time, there was not much difference between hunting and chess, but over time the difference was apparent, and now even among young white girls, Chinese students who were gentler, more hygienic, and had better academic performance were clearly more popular than white students.

The Cypriot military is a representative of another image of the Chinese in southern Africa, which is courage and discipline.

It is an indisputable fact that the world war has been going on so far, and the southern African army has fully proved the strength of southern Africa by virtue of its own achievements, and this strength is not only sufficient material supply and strong industrial strength, but also the comprehensive quality level of military personnel is also one of the important conditions.

Objectively, it must be admitted that before coming to Europe, the military personnel of southern Africa, whether Chinese or white, had some inferiority complex when facing Europeans.

Now that the inferiority complex has largely disappeared, the Southern African Army has proved that it can defeat the formidable German army without the cooperation of the British and French forces.

The Battle of the Dardanelles strengthened the confidence of the southern African army, and although the Ottoman Empire was the "sick man of Europe", it was also an old imperialist country after all, with hundred-legged insects dying but not stiff, and emaciated camels bigger than horses.

As a result, in the Battle of the Dardanelles, the Ottoman Empire was defeated, the Fifth Army was completely annihilated, the Second Army was almost disabled, and the Southern African Army proved with strength that they could become the dominant force on the battlefield.

The performance of Chinese soldiers in this process is obvious to all, several outstanding Southern African Expeditionary Force units, the officers and men are mainly Chinese, the officers in the African division are also mainly Chinese, nearly seventy percent of the staff officers of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Command in Cyprus are of Chinese origin, for the vast majority of Europeans, the "sick man of East Asia" only exists in outrageous legends, and the Chinese soldiers in southern Africa are their first contact with the Chinese.

"There are also a lot of people from my hometown who have emigrated to southern Africa—" Spike's deputy was Tsuneyama from the river.

"Why didn't you go?" Spike wonders, compared to Southern Africa, I really don't have much nostalgia for the Qing Dynasty in the past.

"I-" Chang Shan's expression was complicated, he wanted to explain but didn't know where to start, and in the end he could only sigh, the adult world is so helpless, people are cheap from home, parents are not far away, children are not ugly, and there are too many reasons not to immigrate.

Unlike the poor who have no long things, Chang Shan is a rare expatriate student in the Qing State ten years ago, and he is also a public student in the Qing State.

But there are many reasons to immigrate, and living is the most legitimate reason, in the Far East, where the people are not able to make a living, Chang Shan is a big family from Chang Shan who has been too busy to take care of himself, and Chang Shan himself even has to "sell himself into slavery" to survive, in the traditional thinking of the Chinese, working for foreigners is almost the same as selling himself into slavery, if it were not for the fact that the boss of the Nyasaland Human Resources Company is Chinese, Chang Shan would not work for the Nyasaland Human Resources Company even if he starved to death.

One cannot be proud, but one cannot be without pride.

"Chang, I don't want to interfere with your way of life, but if you look at the dinner of these workers, look at the new clothes they just got, and look at their smiles from the bottom of their hearts, you should know their yearning for a better life, everyone has the freedom to pursue a good life, and you are the same, your brother seems to work in the county magistrate's office, right, he is also a very good young man-" Spike and Tsuneyama were also having dinner, and compared to the other laborers, Spike and Tsuneyama's dinner was significantly richer, except for beef and fish, Each person also has a bottle of fruit wine from southern Africa.

The national liquor includes, but is not limited to, wine, and after the outbreak of the world war, the consumption of alcoholic beverages is increasing, and the daily demand for alcohol at the front is measured in tonnage units, and the production of wine is clearly insufficient.

In addition to grapes, southern Africa is also rich in many other fruits, so there are more and more varieties of fruit wines made from other fruits.

When the workers were eating, the soldiers who served as overseers were also resting, most of them were Chinese, they were very proficient in Chinese, there was no language barrier with the laborers, and there was no domineering superiority between the words, and they smiled before they spoke, and they showed their eight teeth when they smiled, it was really hard to imagine that their performance on the battlefield would be as brave and invincible as the legend.

An officer wearing a medal of valor's medal on his chest was handing out cigarettes to the laborers around him with a pleasant face, and the abundance of southern Africa was fully reflected in these seemingly inconspicuous little things, and the soldiers could get a pack of cigarettes every day regardless of whether they smoked or not, and the officers were more fully supplied.

Many laborers had never smoked cigarettes before, so they were reluctant to smoke cigarettes when they got them, and they put them on their ears to prepare meals and enjoy them.

The officer wearing the Medal of Warrior was unimpressed, and a pack of cigarettes quickly dispersed, and then he took out a pack of toffee and began to divide it, although one per person was not much, but it would also become a part of the memory of the laborers.

"If you have the chance, you can go to the construction site of the Indians or Persians, and there is a contrast to show the special care you receive as Chinese, and don't take all this for granted." Spike prepares to take a shower after dinner, which is standard procedure for laborers, and no matter how late or tired the work is, he must take a shower before going to bed.

Chang Shan didn't have to go to the construction site of the Indians or Persians, he knew how miserable the Indians and Persians were.

Don't think that the soldiers in charge of the overseers have a smile on their faces, these overseers are foolish, when the Chinese laborers disembark, there is a whole row of corpses hanging on the dock, all local Ottomans from the traitor department or workers from other colonies.

Next to the camp where the Chinese laborers lived was the camp of the Ottomans, and on the side of the Chinese laborers, there was often wine and meat for three meals a day, and the landlords and old wealth of the Qing Dynasty were not so luxurious; The Ottomans were much more miserable, they had three meals a day except potatoes and potatoes, sometimes they couldn't eat enough potatoes, and the workers worked harder than the Chinese laborers, who worked eight hours a day, and the Ottomans worked 11 hours a day, not a minute less.

Although the welfare of southern Africa is good, but for those who make mistakes, the punishment is never soft, and the punishment is heavier than in other regions.

After taking a bath, Chang Shan lay on the Chase bunk tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, and several other people in the room were excited, they were ready to cross the ocean as piglets, but they didn't expect to be treated as a "master".

The lord of the Qing Kingdom would not fish and meat every day, and he would work in the field when he was busy.

"We're just coolies, and we can eat big fish and meat every day, think about what kind of life real southern Africans live, then don't you eat enough loaf rolls and meat every day——"

"Someone in my hometown went to southern Africa, and I thought I wouldn't be able to come back, but I didn't expect to suddenly make a fortune the year before last, and I took my wife and children away, and I heard that when I left, I was sent away by the county lord——"

"Then why didn't you go?"

"I haven't seen this kind of thing with my own eyes, who knows if it's true or not-"

"It's too late to go now, I heard that when I used to go to southern Africa, people's government directly divided houses and land-"

"And this good thing!"

"Then there's a fake—"

These days, Changshan is really not the only one who can't sleep at night.